Excellent article! Few I have read on this topic have what I consider your measured objectivity and who are not morally schizophrenic and call out the evil done on both sides of that unnecessary (as are ALL) war caused by the "NWO" (see Smedley D. Butler's "War Is a Racket").
I agree, WW2 was not "the good war".
The evidence is overwhelming that dictator FDR was conspiratorial in setting up the war with Japan and goading them into it and allowing Pearl Harbour to happen.
Further, as you note, Hitler was not an all out war monger--there is much evidence he tried to negotiate rather than invade.
You did not mention the case against the gassing of the Jews in certain places which I find worth considering.
There is also the work of Antony Sutton on how Wall Street funded Hitler.
I also suggest the work of the Voluntaryist scholar Robert Higgs and his "Ratchet Effect" on war as the best fertilizer for growing the State.
Btw, I tried to email you, not sure if it got through? Email me, Jack, Voluntaryist as I have a proposition I hope will interest you: responsiblyfree@protonmail.com
Thank you! Of course there are lots of things about this war that could still be mentioned. Many thick books have been written about it and many thick books will still be written about it I am sure. I have to be very selective in an article like this. I looked into the gas chamber revisionism. It is interesting. They have definitely convinced me that it is not a very efficient way of killing people. So it is questionable how many they killed that way. But I did not want to get into this. This just makes it more controversial. My goal was to as much as possible stick to the accepted facts. I am not a historian and arguing over fact can be very tricky. One really needs to go deeply into sources to do that. Most of the audience does not have the time to check your sources, so they will either have to believe you or not. The interesting thing is that very few facts need to be questioned to show that the official history writing is bogus. The official narrative of the good war and the complete success story just does not add up. I have emailed you now.
It’s interesting to me that many pre-WWII anti-communist socialists/liberals, e.g., the philosopher Sidney Hook, who had no delusions about the nature of the Stalinist regime and its expansionist intentions, still defended our alliance with Stalin even after learning about the Holomodor. Perhaps they believed that the USSR would be more contained during and after the war than it was. But they must have known that FDR and other leaders were deluded about Stalin.
Thanks, I think politics always has an inherent bias towards doing something vs doing nothing. And wars in particular are very polarising.
Would be nice to have an editor, as I know I am not good at getting everything right, not even in my native language German. But then, I don’t have any commercial interests with this blog. Writing just helps me to think through a subject and to organise my thoughts. And if it makes a few people think as well then that is great.
Excellent article! Few I have read on this topic have what I consider your measured objectivity and who are not morally schizophrenic and call out the evil done on both sides of that unnecessary (as are ALL) war caused by the "NWO" (see Smedley D. Butler's "War Is a Racket").
I agree, WW2 was not "the good war".
The evidence is overwhelming that dictator FDR was conspiratorial in setting up the war with Japan and goading them into it and allowing Pearl Harbour to happen.
Further, as you note, Hitler was not an all out war monger--there is much evidence he tried to negotiate rather than invade.
You did not mention the case against the gassing of the Jews in certain places which I find worth considering.
There is also the work of Antony Sutton on how Wall Street funded Hitler.
I also suggest the work of the Voluntaryist scholar Robert Higgs and his "Ratchet Effect" on war as the best fertilizer for growing the State.
Btw, I tried to email you, not sure if it got through? Email me, Jack, Voluntaryist as I have a proposition I hope will interest you: responsiblyfree@protonmail.com
Get free, stay free.
Thank you! Of course there are lots of things about this war that could still be mentioned. Many thick books have been written about it and many thick books will still be written about it I am sure. I have to be very selective in an article like this. I looked into the gas chamber revisionism. It is interesting. They have definitely convinced me that it is not a very efficient way of killing people. So it is questionable how many they killed that way. But I did not want to get into this. This just makes it more controversial. My goal was to as much as possible stick to the accepted facts. I am not a historian and arguing over fact can be very tricky. One really needs to go deeply into sources to do that. Most of the audience does not have the time to check your sources, so they will either have to believe you or not. The interesting thing is that very few facts need to be questioned to show that the official history writing is bogus. The official narrative of the good war and the complete success story just does not add up. I have emailed you now.
Good article (a few edits are needed).
It’s interesting to me that many pre-WWII anti-communist socialists/liberals, e.g., the philosopher Sidney Hook, who had no delusions about the nature of the Stalinist regime and its expansionist intentions, still defended our alliance with Stalin even after learning about the Holomodor. Perhaps they believed that the USSR would be more contained during and after the war than it was. But they must have known that FDR and other leaders were deluded about Stalin.
Thanks, I think politics always has an inherent bias towards doing something vs doing nothing. And wars in particular are very polarising.
Would be nice to have an editor, as I know I am not good at getting everything right, not even in my native language German. But then, I don’t have any commercial interests with this blog. Writing just helps me to think through a subject and to organise my thoughts. And if it makes a few people think as well then that is great.